Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. won a verdict of more
than $1.05 billion after jurors found Samsung Electronics Co.
infringed six of seven patents for mobile devices in the first
lawsuit to go before a U.S. jury in a fight for dominance of the
global smartphone market.

Apple won less than half of what it sought in damages from
the federal court jury, though the computer maker may see its
verdict tripled by the judge. Samsung avoided a finding of
damages for antitrust law violations or breach of contract.

The nine-member jury in San Jose, California, rejected
Samsung’s patent counterclaims against Apple and its request for
damages. The jury, which delivered its verdicts today, also
determined that all of Apple’s patents at stake in the trial
were valid. Apple also won findings that Samsung devices
infringe its trade dress, or how a product looks.

“Today’s verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple,
but as a loss for the American consumer,” Samsung said in an e-mailed statement. “It is unfortunate that patent law can be
manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with
rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day
by Samsung and other companies.”

Samsung said the verdict wasn’t the “final word” in the
case or in courts and tribunals around the world.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, sued Samsung in
April 2011, and Samsung countersued as part of a battle being
waged on four continents over a smartphone market valued at
$219.1 billion according to Bloomberg Industries. The companies
have also sued each other in the U.K., Australia and South
Korea.

Apple Rises

The jury addressed more than 600 questions in its verdict.
Apple sought $2.5 billion to $2.75 billion for its claims that
Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung infringed four design patents
and three software patents in copying the iPhone and iPad.
Samsung’s demand for as much as $421.8 million in royalties was
based on claims that Apple infringed five patents.

Apple rose 1.8 percent to $675 at 7:32 p.m. New York time
after the close of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Apple seeks in the case to make permanent a preliminary ban
it won on U.S. sales of the Tab 10.1 and extend the ban to
Samsung smartphones. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who presided
over the trial, will consider the injunction request later.

‘Huge Gap’

“There’s a huge gap between the verdict and reality,”
said Kevin Restivo, an IDC analyst in Toronto.

“Samsung is not likely to cede the smartphone market
leadership to Apple or anyone else in the short term,” Restivo
said. “Short of an injunction, meaning no sales of a Galaxy-series smartphone around the world, that’s not going to
change.”

Apple said during the trial that at least 28 Samsung
products infringed its patents. Jurors were required to specify
which of three corporate entities -- the Samsung parent company
and two U.S. units -- was responsible for each infringement and
the damages Samsung owed for each infringing device.

Jurors found infringement by all 21 Samsung devices that
Apple claimed had copied its so-called rubberbanding technology,
the way an iPad or iPhone screen seems to bounce when a user
scrolls to the end of a file.

‘Value Originality’

“The mountain of evidence presented during the trial
showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than even we
knew,” Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple, said in an e-mailed statement. “At Apple, we value originality and
innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on
earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for
our competitors to flagrantly copy.”

The patent disputes began when Samsung released its Galaxy
smartphones in 2010. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Oct.
5, initiated contact with Samsung over his concerns that the
Galaxy phones copied the iPhone, according to trial testimony.

Samsung and Apple are the world’s two largest makers of the
high-end handheld devices that blend the functionality of a
phone and a computer. They are battling each other in courts
even as they are bound by commercial deals involving components
supply. Apple accounts for about 9 percent of Samsung’s revenue,
making it the company’s largest customer, according to a
Bloomberg supply-chain analysis.

Phone Sales

In the second quarter of this year, consumers worldwide
bought 406 million mobile phones, compared with 401.8 million in
the same period last year, with Samsung and Apple shipping
almost half of those phones, according to IDC, a research firm
based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Samsung extended its lead over Apple during the second
quarter, shipping 50.2 million mobile phones, representing 32.6
percent of the market, compared with 26 million units, or 16.9
percent of the market, for Apple, according to IDC.

Both sides have had legal victories. Apple won a U.S. court
order on June 29 blocking sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus
smartphone, the first smartphone to use Google Inc.’s Android
4.0 operating system. The product has remained on the market as
Samsung appeals the order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit in Washington.

In November, Samsung won a battle in an Australian court
that allowed customers to buy Samsung’s rival to the iPad.

A Seoul court earlier today ordered each company to stop
selling some smartphones and tablets in South Korea and pay
damages after ruling that they infringed each other’s patents.

The case is Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 11-cv-01846, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
(San Jose).